People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

With patient and perseverance, the mountain is conquered.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

If I have only one life . . . let me live it as a blonde.